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ASVAB Word Knowledge: Word Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes Drill 1, Problem 1. Which of these words is closest in meaning to incoherent?
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And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by [ blubbers] confusion.
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Confusion say we just slaughtered his name.
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Which of these words is closest in meaning to incoherent?
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And here are the potential answers.
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[ mumbles ]
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All right. Uh, well, it'll be awfully helpful if we know what
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"coherent" means for starters.
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Basically, it means "logical" or "making sense."
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But what does prefix "in" mean?
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Well, sometimes it means to go in a certain direction, like "inland."
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But then there are words like "inflexible" and "insufficient"
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and "insane." So "in" usually means "not."
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And if something is "incoherent," it's
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not coherent or not making sense.
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Hopefully that makes sense.
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So let's look at the answers. A - lucid.
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Well, lucid means clear or easy to understand,
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which is the exact opposite of what we're looking for.
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D - resistant. Well, resistant means not wanting to do something.
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Yeah. [ chuckles ] C - sleepy.
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You might not make very much sense when you're tired, but
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this one feels kind of random.
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So try B - disjointed. Mm.
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Well, here we can guess that
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"join" means to come together, and the prefix
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"dis" (in words like "dislike and "disappear")
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"dis" means not.
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So the correct answer is B - disjointed,
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which means not really following a clear pattern.
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Just like Taylor Swift's dating history.
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Yeah? Remember her? Really tall. Blonde.
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